Brazil WRT Friday summary

Rally Jordan: S2000

Unlucky start for Daniel Oliveira in Jordan
The Brazil WRT driver had to retire after gone through mechanical issues on the first day of competition

An already complicated Jordan Rally got even more troubled for Brazil WRT
driver Daniel Olivera, after the Brazilian representative was forced to
abandon the race once he had completed the first special stage of this
fourth round of the World Rally Championship.

Daniel Oliveira, Carlos Magalhaes, MINI JOHN COOPER WORKS S2000

Photo by: xpb.cc

Far from being the best start for Oliveira and his Portuguese navigator
Carlos Magalhaes, their MINI John Cooper Works S2000 suffered for engine
overheating after recording the time on SS7, Suwayma (13.5km).

After the mechanical trouble was reported, Daniel pulled over to the side
of the liaison section to be driven by the auxiliary car straight to the
Service Park located on the Dead Sea shores, where the team started
working to sort out the problem.

All in all, Daniel and Carlos will re-join the race tomorrow for the
final leg under the Super Rally system. After missing more than 200
kilometres of test between day one and two, the plan is to make as much
as they can out of the final day of action which will help Daniel to gain
more experience in the competitive WRC.

When you are developing a new car issues arise all the time. The English properly call it 'teething problems'.

Paul Handal

There are still eight stages and 148,10 competitive kilometres to be
tackled until the finish line.

Brazil WRT driver Daniel Oliveira:

"We were driving well and calmly to get used of the car. The idea was
not to make mistakes on the SS7 and to check out the car cautiously since
yesterday we couldn't take part in the Shakedown. However, in the
liaison section the temperature alarm of the car set off and with Carlos
decided to stop the car. We called the team and we were instructed to
turn the engine off.

There was nothing else to do, so that incident dropped out us of the race
quite early. Tomorrow we hope to keep on gaining experience and
kilometres since we are re-joining the race under the Super Rally
system".

Brazil WRT Team Manager Paul Handal:

"When you are developing a new car issues arise all the time. The
English properly call it 'teething problems'. These situations will
help Daniel to come to some conclusions so as to boost the Prodrive's
work. Every day he might cope with different challenges that will lead us
to be closer to the ideal that MINI and Prodrive are looking for".